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Originally Posted by Tcoat
Toyota may be many things but dumb is not one of them. They have a team of hundreds that plan these things not a couple of guys sitting at a table saying "oh I don't know maybe a couple of thousand".
The people of the internet need to understand that cars like these (and the 86, Supra, GR Yaris) are NEVER going into appliance vehicle production numbers. It is always "oh look how low the sales numbers are" and "They could have sold many more" but the numbers were set at least 3 years ago and they will stick to that plan no matter what.
This is planned low availability on a high demand car and is not new or unusual in any way. It is very possible they are even taking a financial loss on each unit but since the purpose is to getting people talking about Toyota they have already won and not a single car has hit a lot yet.
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I get all of that, trust me, it's just disappointing. Enthusiasts already have the absolute s**t end of the stick, we don't need something that's supposed to be awesome turn out to be another cruel antagonization.
The Civic Type R for example has damaged Honda's brand for me personally. The whole situation around it has turned me off of Honda all together. Probably just bad luck with the dealers I interacted with, but I won't even consider the new one - which by the way looks like it will be a dream - or any Honda for that matter.
Subaru has been selling us the WRX and STI (RIP) for 20 years. Even the STI wasn't really a halo car in that it was never hard to get. That never hurt its brand and they must have made money on them. I guess I'll say my hope is that this GR experiment doesn't end after some unobtainable tease 2-3 year limited edition car. I hope it continues on until regs forbid it, and they actually commit to making something obtainable, even if that means down-badging it to "GR Sport" or something. We just need some fun cars.